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When did city leaders see a plow?

By: Doug Caruso

The Columbus Dispatch - February 24, 2014 03:18 PM

We spent the last week analyzing GPS data from city snowplows to produce
this story on Sunday.

One natural question that we did not answer in that story: When did City Council members and the
mayor see a city plow on their street after the snow storm that dropped more than 10 inches on the
city on Feb. 4 and 5?

I checked by entering the addresses of Columbus' elected officials into the
handy look-up tool
that web producer Victor Black built from the data (now with maps!).

I found no record of city plows on the street of Councilwoman Michelle M. Mills on the Northeast
Side or Councilwoman Priscilla R. Tyson's street on the East Side. There was a single ping, on Feb.
7, two days after the storm ended, showing a plow on the South Side street of Councilman Hearcel F.
Craig.

Councilman A. Troy Miller's street on the Far East Side was plowed the earliest of his
colleagues, on Feb. 6, one day after the snow stopped falling. A plow showed up there again on the
7th.

On the 7th, plows first went down the streets of Councilwoman Eileen Y. Paley, on the Far East
Side, and Council President Andrew J. Ginther, in Clintonville. And Councilman Zach M. Klein's
Italian Village street first saw a city plow on Feb. 8, three days after the storm ended.

Mayor Michael B. Coleman's street was first plowed on the 5th, the day the storm ended. Before
you cry foul, consider that the mayor lives Downtown, where most streets receive priority treatment
-- and did before the mayor moved there.

One note: To find the GPS hits on the mayor's street, I had to use the adjacent set of addresses
in the pull-down menu of our look-up tool. For some reason, the city's data didn't quite label the
address range on the mayor's street correctly, but the GPS location data marked a plow right at his
front door.